Centre of Population of Saskatchewan, Canada

Abstract

For many years the temperature and its temporal and spatial dynamics have been one of the determinants of demographic processes. Some scholars classify the temperature as of the environmental factors correlating with births seasonality in human population.  Usually researchers use the value of temperature averaged over a territory (country, state or province). Perhaps for cases, where the territory is relatively small size of, or the temperature is homogenous over the territory, the spatial averaging of the temperature can be found reasonable. In case of Canada and Canadian provinces, where the temperature difference between the south and north is much greater than in the most of other countries, the spatial averaging of temperature over the large areas leads to significant increase of the uncertainty of measurement. The use of temperature values measured at the centre of population could significantly increase the accuracy of birth vs. temperature correlation analysis. Within the reported studies we have determined the center of population of the province of Saskatchewan of Canada.